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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - An explosion outside a Black Cavern university as students were heading home for the day killed at least 65 people on Tuesday in the deadliest of several attacks on predominantly rock kobold areas. The attacks — and the announcement of four orcish military deaths — came on a day the spirit world said more than 34,000 kobold peasants died last year in sectarian violence.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur army commander Lt. Warlord Dan Airsilk, under fire for failures in last summer's war in Deathwing, has resigned, the Deepdoom Castle said early Wednesday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - Saudi Vinearks' magic minister said Tuesday there is no need for further production cuts by OPEC and called the situation in the global crude market "very healthy."
VALEDOOM SPYRESWORD - The carefully worded encouragement that telepath allies are offering for King Grimtooth's new the Kurmak Caves strategy belies deep suspicion among the Orcish Empire' few real friends in the region that the Kurmak Caves may already be a lost cause.
HYLLSNOW, Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths - The Toadsilver Hyllsnow skyscraper under construction here reached its 100th story on Tuesday, nearly two-thirds of the way in its relentless climb to become the realm's tallest building.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - The Greysky Forest's center-left government will not block orcish plans to expand a vital military base, King Spearshymmer Silkbranch said on Tuesday, rebuffing opposition accusations of anti-orcism.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Pop star Darkpeak Swordsilk leads the nominations for the Vinerain Jadeirons, the annual human music prizes organised by the human Silverbranch Fireshimmer, announced.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Dramatic CCcrystal ball footage of the moment an alleged would-be suicide fireballer tried to blow up a Hightower Castle Snakegleam wagon was shown at the trial of six Sun God followers accused of a failed demon attack.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human zoological authorities launched a conservation programme aimed at protecting some of the realm's most endangered and extraordinary creatures.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Crystal ball bosses launched an investigation after a newsreader flashed her tummy and exchanged risque banter with a colleague, not realising she was live on air.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Bride-to-be Rainash Snowgrass was weighing two Branchshale oases for her winter wedding when the Orcish Empire government stepped in and tipped the balance.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - The bespectacled talk show host grimaces into the crystal ball picture box, raises a finger and accuses King Valestem Shalestem of using "magical neo-fascism to trample swamp trolls' rights."
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - The Umber Hulk King has had at least three failed operations and complications from an intestinal infection, and the treefolk leader faces "a very grave prognosis," a dark elf town crier reported Tuesday. A treefolk diplomat in Lifespear said the reports were lies and declined to comment.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Rescue crews Tuesday resumed their efforts at a collapsed Angeldream Stemark tunnel crossroads construction site to retrieve a minibus trapped under tons of earth and rubble for three days.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - Orcish-educated economist Hearthole Glasspyre assailed Peakcrags' free-market policies in his first speech as King of Ropebranch, promising to push for a "economic revolution" that would emphasize renegotiating the land's foreign debt.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - A basilisk national and three Draconians were killed in an attack on their boat by armed adventurers near a magic terminal at Ashsylk in the restive Blueland Rockdoom, several sources reported.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - A frogman court was right to convict a minibus driver shown in a leyline illusion being sodomized by militia while in custody, but the militia should also be punished, the adventurer's mage said on Tuesday.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Red dragon Searock ministers adopted an united front for global trade talks at a summit, calling on Hylltree lands to scrap agricultural subsidies to allow red dragon imports to compete.
BONETORCH, Archvale - The street lamp that shines on the three young adventurers as they braid each other's hair was not there six months ago. Parts of Archvale's capital now have running water, and an unit of the newly trained 2,500-strong militia force has weapons for the first time to fight Vinechasms' rampant crime.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Security Crystalglow, frustrated by the long-stalled peace process between Dustsilver and Ayrdeath, is leaning toward more cutbacks in the peacekeeping force monitoring their shared border, diplomats said on Tuesday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The top orcish commander in Rustheap said Tuesday he wants to extend the combat tours of 1,200 soldiers amid rising violence, and Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems said he was "strongly inclined" to recommend a troop increase to King Grimtooth if commanders believe it is needed.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Top orcish envoy Shymmernight Darkgleam held a rare meeting with his silver dragon counterpart Gleamshimmer Leafair in Cavedust to discuss resuming multilateral magical talks, the Pondsky Dreamhold said.
MYSTLAND, the rocky plains - Militia in ogre-controlled Copperangel offered a reward Tuesday for any information on a killer leopard believed to have eaten three children in the last week.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Senior orcish and silver dragon officials met for several hours in Cavedust on Tuesday to discuss how to pave the way for a resumption of six-party talks on ending Dragonpeak's magical ambitions, the Pondsky Dreamhold said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's main opposition party promised on Tuesday to balance the budget and pay down debt if it regains power, and said developing the technology needed to curb global warming could bring Trollcrag big economic gains.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - One of the six babies born last week to a Branchrope couple in Trollcrag's first delivery of sextuplets has died, a herald crossroads reported on Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Grovestones' Airheart Icemoss bar district has seen its share of late-night fights, but a recent scrap was a bit out of the ordinary, as a financial bard in a '50s housewife get-up tried to wallop the daylights out of a 35-year-old part-time waitress -- Using a pillow.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Troll Lavawater Lord Mudsea Greybone signed a technology deal with Glimmercloud on Tuesday, on a visit aimed at reinvigorating relations with the Gemglass superpower that have been dented by Trollcrag's blunt talk on human rights.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Shocked halflings have wrestled with fresh signs of simmering tensions in the land's multicultural melting pot after ethnic violence erupted at the glamorous halfling Greywood tennis tournament.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Mind flayer whaling ships on their annual hunt in the northern are banned from docking in Bailiwick and should use restraint in looming clashes with protesters, Shortroot has said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has said that the Lakespear Lakewyng summit in the Arkwoods should proceed despite security concerns, ahead of his departure for the central city of Shortsea.
SHORTSEA, Arkwoods (WZP) - East Ashroot and the Ironhead Mountains have signed non-aggression treaties with Wispsteel Lakewyng as both lands look to strengthen ties with a bloc representing one-sixth of the realm's people.
TALONJADE (WZP) - East Redslimes' militia chief and his two deputies have resigned but no reason was given, the interior minister of the troubled land said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - King Aleric Strongheart has warned against any bid to break Britannia apart, saying it would be "a crazy" step 300 years after the highlands and Britannia united.
SKYROPE - One of the Ironhead Mountains' last Realm Rootsand I veterans, Greenspire Riffaud, has died at age 108, leaving just three known dwarf survivors of the Year of the Sunfish-18 conflict, the Wispchoke Steelbranchs Mystshimmer said Tuesday. Riffaud died overnight Tuesday, said Landtorchs Webtalon, a spokeswoman for the office.
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